Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-20
WACO.
How DIR. Carroll, the Leader OF the Pro-
hibitionists in Texas, Handled the
Subject in a Lecture.
The Farmers' Alliance Not Yet at work
Ex-Gov. IreIand's Last Pardun-COl-
ored Education.



WACO, Ten, Jan. l9.-Rev. DR.. Car
rolls lecture last night is the talk of the
town to-day, he more than dividing
honors with the inaugural address OF the
governor. 1t is recognized that Dr. Car
roll displayed shIewdness in selecting
time for his speech when he would have
"a representative body of farmers, from all
parts of the state, present as auditors,
and that this is the opening gun of the
prohibition campaign. a short report
I was wired THE GAZETTE last night, but
the following more complete report,
which is from The Day of this evening,
will not be embarrassing. The Day says:
"Everv inch of available space was
utilized last evening ct the First Baptist
Church (Which will seat 1900 people, and
many who came to hear Rev. DR.. B. Il.
! Carrous lecture on the personal Lilo
erty Dodge" could not gain sdmittance.
! The State Farmers Alliance, on an invi-
tation from the chairman of the state
prohibition committee adjourned to hear
| the lecture, and almost the entire delega-
ton were present.
DR.. Carroll was at his best. A man of
natural greatness, he felt that he was
face to face with great occasion, and
the responsibility did not rest upon IN
worthy shoulders. lie opened his re
marks with q scripture lesson from the
fourteenth chapter of Romans, after
which Rev. S. A. Beauchamp led in an
appropriate prayer.
Then the lecture proper began. The
speaker pictured in eXtenso Bartholdi's
statue Of liberty, its origin, its evolution
and its final completion. He said that
all great conceptions were born of human
sorrow and pain, and the immortal con-
lception which found creation in Bar
tholdi's brain was child of oppression.
After reading poem from John G. Whit
tier on The Statue. of Liberty, "a large paint
ing, which hung on the wall, enlarged
from Texas Slftings, was unveiled, reveal
ing the true and the false idea OF liberty.
The statue is represented in its beauty
and perfection, but the statue has cast g
direful shadow. This shadow makes the
beautiful torch held in liberty's hand a
torch of incendiarism. The cleaning
points on liberty's crown become in the
picture Kissing, poisonous serpents ready
to send the swift-winged messenger OF
death to the hearts of their victim. In
the hand of liberty there is tablet on
which is inscribed "1776." But in the
hand Of this sinister shadow is tomb
stone On which is written sacred 10 the
memory Oft means the memory Of
! the wrecked and ruined dead VINO have
/ fallen victims to the curse of rum. When
the painting was unveiled it created ip-
tense interest and the interest never for a
moment tagged. After showing to his
audience the false idea of liberty Illus
traIed in the shadow described, DR.. Car
roll said: "This Is the idea of liberty
held by leading politicians, senators,
congressman and officials. 1t was the
character of personal liberty outlined by
Senator Coke and Hon. r Q. Mills in the
local option campaign in this and adjoln-
! ing counties in the summer OF 1855. In
the name of liberty impeach 1t, Its the
shadow and not the substance; 1t IS lust
and license and in its essential constltu
ents is opposed TO true liberty, end Ggair
in the name of God aud IN the name o.
liberty l deliberately impeach 1t"
The speaker then read from Her0er
Spencer, whom he characterized as sn Ii
lusive doctrnaire, and John Stuart Mill
who, he said, was the accepted bulWarE
of strength for ali arguments in favor OF
the liquor traffic. In principle he could
indorse every extract read from Mill, but
in his applications Mill was greatly Al
81 fault Blackstone, Kent and other au
/ thoiitles were quoted at length to convey
to the audience the true conception o.
liberty. He said that to grant restriction
was TO grant all that Prohibitionlsts
claimed; to urge high license as a mitiga
ton of the evil was to grant all that wa:
claimed, except that Prohibitionists be
lieved that g power like the liquor traffic
which was everywhere subverslve of per
sonal liberty, should be prohibited en-
tirely.
The lecture consumed an hour and {
ha'f but the audience did not tire and thu
time seemed short. The meeting wa
closed with prayer by Rev. S. A. King
Before dismission DR.. Carroll announced
that his lecture would be published il
full in next weeks Advance.
Taking 1t altogher last nights lecture
was one of the ablest efforts of DR.. Car
rolls life and was signal triumph for tn
ProhibitiOnlsts."
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The State Farmers Alliance has beer
in session all day with closed doors, aDC
the report of the credentials committee il
- no. finished yet. The Investigations o
report RS are not encouraged. but it is du'
4 the Alliance to say there is no ludenes.
. in this. The scribes sre simply told
!. owe are sorry, but you can't come in
c These are matters thst do not concerl
j. outsiders" The session to-day was oc
d cupied in receiving the credentials com
a mittee's report in broken doses. 1t cam
!. in this way all day long. The struggl